Ryals was originally sentenced to serve 90 days in Montgomery city jail and pay a $300 fine after pleading guilty on Dec. 4, 2013 to the misdemeanor charge of first-degree criminal trespass. He soon appealed the sentence to Montgomery County Circuit Court.

A woman living on Greystone Place in east Montgomery reported to police that on Oct. 21, 2013 she was awakened at 2:30 a.m. by the sound of knocking on her front door, court records show.

Not knowing at first it was a police officer, the woman put her gun into the pocket of her robe and went to the door, she reported.

“I aimed it at the ground, but put her finger on the trigger,” she wrote in her complaint.

When the woman saw the officer at the door, she was relieved and placed her gun on a nearby table.

The woman reported that the first thing the officer said to her was “nice gun.”

The officer told the woman that there had been a 911 call in her area, but that police didn’t know where it had originated from.

When the woman said she was asleep and didn’t make the call, the officers asked whether she were alone and whether he could take a look inside her home, the complaint stated.

“I hesitated a few seconds because I told him I didn’t call 911, but I thought he needed to make sure because he was a policeman,” the woman wrote in her complaint.

The officer looked around the woman’s house, including her bedroom, and remarked how nice it was, the woman claimed.

“At that time, I started moving out of the bedroom back toward the front door and I said, ‘Are you going to check any other houses on the street?’ And he said no,” the woman stated in her complaint. “He was not in a hurry to leave, but I was in a hurry to get him out of the door.”

Before the officer left, the woman asked him his name. He said his name was Destin.

The next morning the woman called to report the incident to Montgomery police. She indicated in her complaint that a supervisor, a detective and an officer responded to her home.

She was told no 911 call had been made in her neighborhood the night before.

As part of its investigation, police reviewed all citizen contacts involving the officer during his six months of patrol duty, the Department of Public Safety stated.

Ryals was hired in June 2012, graduated from the police academy in November 2012, and completed on-the-job training in April 2013.